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Tuesday, June 24, 2025<\/strong>, Central Park<\/strong> hit 99\u00b0F (37.2\u00b0C)<\/strong>, marking the hottest day in New York City<\/strong> since July 2012<\/strong>. The reading was taken at 1:27 p.m.<\/strong> at Belvedere Castle<\/strong>, the city\u2019s official weather station. A dry air mass<\/strong> drifting in from the west<\/strong> helped push temperatures well beyond typical seasonal levels.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bryan Ramsey<\/strong>, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in New York<\/strong>, had projected the possibility of the thermometer reaching 102\u00b0F (38.9\u00b0C)<\/strong>. Still, the all-time high in Central Park<\/strong> remains 106\u00b0F (41.1\u00b0C)<\/strong>, set on July 9, 1936<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thanks to its lush vegetation<\/strong>, Central Park<\/strong> usually stays cooler than the surrounding urban landscape<\/strong>. But on Tuesday<\/strong>, the shift in wind direction brought drier and hotter air<\/strong>, replacing the usual humid flow from the Atlantic Ocean<\/strong>. The result was a blistering afternoon<\/strong> that felt hotter than the numbers alone suggested, especially in areas north and west of the city<\/strong>, where the heat surged even further.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Several other nearby locations shattered temperature records.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n At Newark Liberty International Airport<\/strong>, the mercury climbed to 103\u00b0F (39.4\u00b0C)<\/strong>, beating the previous record for the date\u201497\u00b0F (36.1\u00b0C)<\/strong>, set in 1966<\/strong>\u2014and matching the all-time June record set in 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n LaGuardia Airport<\/strong> hit 100\u00b0F (37.8\u00b0C)<\/strong>, topping the June 24<\/strong> record of 96\u00b0F (35.6\u00b0C)<\/strong> from 2013<\/strong>, although still shy of its June record of 101\u00b0F (38.3\u00b0C)<\/strong> from 1952<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n At Kennedy International Airport<\/strong>, the temperature soared to 102\u00b0F (38.9\u00b0C)<\/strong>, breaking the previous daily record of 97\u00b0F (36.1\u00b0C)<\/strong> from 2010<\/strong> and surpassing the airport\u2019s June record of 99\u00b0F (37.2\u00b0C)<\/strong> from 1949<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There\u2019s a bit of a break in store: Wednesday<\/strong> is expected to be slightly cooler, with a high near 94\u00b0F (34.4\u00b0C)<\/strong>, and Thursday<\/strong> could bring a more significant drop, with highs dipping back into the 70s\u00b0F (21\u201326\u00b0C)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Times Square<\/strong>, glassy skyscrapers<\/strong>, and sun-drenched sidewalks<\/strong> offered a vivid portrait of the heat: costume performers wilting in the sun, barely dressed pedestrians seeking shade, and the intense glare off buildings turning Manhattan<\/strong> into a mid-summer furnace<\/strong>\u2014a stark reminder of how extreme a late-June heat wave<\/strong> can be in New York City<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday, June 24, 2025, Central Park hit 99\u00b0F (37.2\u00b0C), marking the hottest day in New York City since July 2012. The reading was taken at 1:27 p.m. at Belvedere Castle, the city\u2019s official weather station. A dry air mass drifting in from the west helped push temperatures well beyond typical seasonal levels. Bryan Ramsey, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n